The Infinite Monkey’s Guide to... The Supernatural

The Infinite Monkey Cage

BBC

Comedy, Science

4.7 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Brian Cox and Robin Ince trawl through the Monkey Cage back catalogue to reveal whether science and the supernatural can sit side by side. They hear how comedian Lucy Beaumont believes alien life has visited Hull, and challenge the physics and psychology of ghosts with Prof Richard Wiseman. Has our brain evolved to conjure up ghostly apparitions and demonic forces? Is there real science behind some of our most common paranormal experiences? And they unpick the practical difficulties for Santa delivering gifts, discovering that quantum physics could just make it possible. New episodes will be released on Wednesdays, but if you’re in the UK, listen to new episodes, a week early, first on BBC Sounds: bbc.in/3K3JzyF Producer: Marijke Peters Executive Producer: Alexandra Feachem

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:05.0	You're about to listen to an episode of the Infinite Monkeys Guide 2.
0:09.4	Episodes will be released on Wednesdays, wherever you get your podcasts.
0:12.7	But if you're in the UK, you can listen to new episodes a week early, first, on BBC
0:18.6	Sounds.
0:19.6	Hello, I'm Robin Inc.
0:20.9	And I'm Brian Cox.
0:21.9	Welcome to the Infinite Monkeys Guide 2, a new series in which we go through our extensive
0:26.7	back catalogue of shows about event horizons, quantum superpositions, and obviously dead
0:32.6	strawberries.
0:33.7	This week, it's the Infinite Monkeys Guide 2, The Supernatural.
0:37.8	I mean, there's no such thing.
0:39.2	It's either natural or it doesn't exist.
0:40.6	And we'll get to that.
0:41.6	Sure, I thought there was an equation to prove the existence of ghosts.
0:44.6	Is there not?
0:45.6	No.
0:46.6	If a dead cat is alive, no.
0:47.6	Sure.
0:48.6	We've been lucky enough to have people who stood on the moon when Nobel Prize is stared
0:51.8	back to the origin of the universe and stop Robin talking, which is extremely important.
0:57.3	By using a magnetic pulse to his motor region.
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